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Ask the collection
A question in plain words about 1,100,502 specimens. It is read into the filters of the collection search, the records are counted, and the answer comes with its chart, its map and the specimens behind it. Every number can be opened.
What it can answer
How many, who, where and when, for any group of organisms, any collector, island, ahupuaʻa or country, in any span of years — and which species or families are best represented. The breakdown is a chart; every bar is a search.
What it cannot
Anything the specimen labels do not record: what a species eats, where to see one today, why a collector went where he went. For the literature, ask the Library instead.
How it is answered
The question is translated into filters, never into an answer; the figures are counted from the records, and the sentences under the chart are written from those figures alone. Remove a chip to see how the count changes.